[Toybox] Posix: failing by omission since 1988.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Jul 1 10:51:44 PDT 2013


On 06/26/2013 10:43:42 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:06:28 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Remember: the S-100 systems were standardized. (IEEE 646 was it?)
> > The PC systems were merely copying what IBM did, then what Compaq
> > did, then copying each other. Guess which won?
> 
> I remember S-100, I used to work with it a looong time ago.  I don't
> think anyone other than ancient computer geeks like me or computer
> historians like you will remember it.  That answers your "Guess which
> won?" question.

My first computer was a commodore 64 in 1982, I just have a hobbyist  
interest in computer history:

   http://landley.net/S-100.mp3
   http://landley.net/history/mirror/cpm/history.html

Rob
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